Gas-stove.



C. B. HOLDEN.

GAS STOVE.

APPLIOATION FILED 13110.17, 1910.

1,057,836. A Patented Apr.1,1913.

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GAS-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 17, 1910.

Patented Apr. l, 191.3.

Serial No. 597,919.

T all Iwhom 'it may conce/rn Be it known that I, CHARLES B, HOLDEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas- Stoves, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention refers to gas or oil burning stoves, its object being to provide simple, economical and effective combination frying and broiling gas or vapor burners.

My invention contemplates the use of a single burner in conjunction with a plate or division wall, the burner being arranged to perform the two-fold function of a broiling and frying burner, due to the application of a reversing means whereby the flame may be directed above or below the wall or plate at will, thus rendering it possible to supply to the trade a stove that can be utilized for all the methods of cooking at a minimum cost, the invention being particu- '25 larly applicable to that class of skeleton gas stoves known to the trade as hot-plates, comprising a frame carrying one or more burners. The capacity of the aforesaid type of stove is at present limited to cooking above the flame and by embodying a simple reversing means with the standard construction I am enabled, at a small initial expense in manufacture, to convert said type of stove, whereby with the usual cooking appliances all methods of cooking may be accomplished.

With the above object in view my invention consists in what is herein described, shown and claimed.

In the drawings Figure l represents a plan view of a simple form of gas stove embodying the features of my invention, the said form being of the hot-plate type; and Fig. 2, a partial cross-section of the same as indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. l, parts being shown broken away and other parts shown in full to more clearly illustrate the structural features.

Referring by characters to the drawings, l represents a stove top or plate provided with legs 2, the plate having central openings 3 for the reception of hollow heads 4 of standard gas burners, which heads as shown are provided with central webs and thus serve as closures for the plate openings. Each burner head is suitably perforated for the discharge of gas and is provided with trunnions 5 that are journaled in seinicircular countersunk pockets 6 formed in the plate. Tubular necks 7 extend from the burner heads and are adapted to seat in either one of a pair of oppositely disposed depressed semicircular channels S, formed in the plate, which channels are disposed at right angles to the trunnion pockets and upon the same horizontal plane. The top of the plate is also provided with lugs 9 that are radially disposed about the burner openings therein serving the purpose of seats for a vessel or other cooking utensil to be placed over the burner. The tubular necks 7 of the burners extend beyond the plate and are connected by brackets l0 withla gas supply pipe l1, which pipe is provided wit-h valves 12 that are adapted to feed gas to the open ends of the burner necks, the gas supply pipe being provided with a suitable hose connection 13.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the burners and connected gas supply pipe can be rotated from right to left of the plate, whereby the gas discharge apertures will be reversed from top to bottom and thus said burner can be quickly converted from a ,frying position to a broiling position, in which latter case the ignited gas would discharge downwardly and the article to be broiled would be placed under said plate in a suitable inclosure if desired.

Especial attention is called to the fact that the burners, as shown and described, are provided with central webs and being trunnioned within the apertures of the solid plate said burner heads thus form clsures for the apertures whereby the gas is all deilected downwardly when the burner is rocked to a broiling position. Thus the burners, while being capable 4 of rotation upon their trunnions, also serve as closures for said apertures,

I claim:

l. In a gas stove comprising a flat stovetop having a burner aperture therein, longitudinally disposed alined semicircular countersunk t-runnion pockets extending from the aperture, and transversely disposed alined semicircular depressed channels extending from the burner aperture to the edges of the stove-top; the combination of a reversible burner-head having trunnions extending therefrom adapted to seat within the stove toptrunnion pockets, and a tubular neck extending from the burner-head adapt,-

ed to seat within either of the seniieireular depressed channels of said stove-top.

2. In a. gas-st0ve comprising a iiat st0vetop having a series of alined burner apertures therein, a pair of longitudinally disposed alined selnicircular eountersunk trunnion pockets extending from each aperture, and transversely disposed alined semi-Cireular depressed channels extending from each burner aperture to the edge of the stovetep; the combination of a reversible burner head for each aperture having trunnions adapted to seat within the trunnion pockets extending from said aperture, a tubular neck extending from each burner head adapted to seat within either of the semi-circular depressed ehannels of that stove-top aperture into which said burner head is seated, and a gas supply pipe rigidly secured to the necks of the series of burners.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto set Iny hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES B. HOLDEN.

W'itnesses MAY DOWNEY, GEO. W. YOUNG.

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